Labour market

22/09/2026

Greece minimum wage 2027: what the €960 floor really costs employers

Greece's minimum wage rises to €960 gross on 1 April 2027, with a government target of €1,000 by January 2028. The headline reads as a win for 576,000 private-sector workers on the floor. For HR leaders running payroll models, workforce plans , ...

22/09/2026

6 min

Greece's €1.4bn food and beverage capex wave: 162,000 workers

Greece's food and beverage industrialists are pouring €1.4 billion into new plants, automated lines and export capacity, according to reporting by Efimerida ton Syntakton. The sector already employs more than 162,000 people and accounts for 15% o...

17/09/2026

3 min

Greece Q4 hiring: 28% plan to hire, 16% plan layoffs

Greece's headline hiring number for the last quarter of the year looks reassuring, until you read the second line. 28% of employers plan to hire, 54% will keep headcount flat, and 16% plan layoffs. One in six. That gap between the confident ...

16/09/2026

4 min

Greece's e-EFKA to recalculate 37,000 pensions, avg €3,000 back

Roughly 37,000 Greek pensioners are about to see their monthly payments recalculated, and many will collect retroactive sums that average around €3,000, with some cases crossing €7,000. The e-EFKA is preparing a fresh payment list to clear a back...

16/09/2026

4 min

Greece's summer 2026 hiring: 632k jobs and what ERGANI shows

Greece's summer 2026 hiring numbers look enormous on paper: 632,537 people were hired in June and July. But 642,244 were let go in the same window, according to the ERGANI information system. The net figure is quietly negative, and the group ...

08/09/2026

6 min

Greece minimum wage to reach €1,000 by January 2028

Greece's minimum wage is on track to break the four-digit barrier. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis used the 90th Thessaloniki International Fair to confirm that the statutory floor will pass €950 in April 2027 and reach €1,000 by January 2028...

08/09/2026

6 min

Greece's two-speed wages meet the new 5% pay-transparency rule

Greece now runs on two parallel wage economies. On one track, roughly 900,000 full-time private-sector workers in firms with more than 10 employees are paid an average of €1,572.59 a month. On the other, about 250,000 salaried executives, tech sp...

08/09/2026

6 min

Why Greek employers offer meal vouchers instead of a pay rise

Your manager sits you down and says the good news: a €100 raise on your gross salary. You do the mental maths on the way home. New car service, maybe a weekend away. Then payday arrives and the extra is €55.44. The rest went to the state before i...

07/09/2026

4 min

DYPA opens €14,220 hiring subsidy for Western Macedonia firms

The Western Macedonia cycle of Greece's flagship post-lignite hiring subsidy closed almost as fast as it opened. Applications went live on Thursday 3 September at 13:00, and the additional budget of €2,034,597.20 earmarked for the region was ab...

25/08/2026

4 min

Greek women make up 69% of the jobless register in July 2026

Greece's July 2026 unemployment registry tells a story the tourism-season headlines miss. Of 715,328 people signed on with DYPA, women account for 495,322, roughly 69% of the total. More than half the register (51.9%) has been on the books for ...

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